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Despite the weakness of its latest export and manufacturing data, South Korea has reason to believe that its economy—the fourth largest in Asia—remains on track for a gradual export-led recovery. Read More »

Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Gerard Baker sat down with South Korean President Park Geun-hye to discuss her economic plans, inter-Korean relations and regional security, among other topics. Read More »

WSJ Korea, Japan and China are teaming up to collect photos of how food in those respective countries is enjoyed by neighboring nations. Korean readers can share their favorite Chinese and Japanese dishes. Send us your photos using the hashtag #WSJFood. Read More »

On his recent swing through Northeast Asia, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emphasized the role that he wants Beijing to play in reining in Pyongyang’s nuclear program. China, he said after meeting its leaders, provided commitments for new action to steer North Korea toward denuclearization. No specifics were given. Read More »

Recent comments by Japan’s top government spokesman suggesting a possible re-examination of Japan’s apology for its involvement in the systematic exploitation of so-called “comfort women” is giving a boost to the country’s nationalists who insist that the imperial military never took part in forcing women and girls, many of them Korean, to sexually serve Japanese soldiers during World War II. Read More »

South Korea plans to offer VIP cards to big-spending Chinese tourists entitling them to five-year multiple-entry visas, use of exclusive immigration counters and discounts at certain stores.

South Korea will begin offering as early as March a special card exclusive to tourists from China entitling them to a five-year multiple-entry visa, use of exclusive immigration counters and discounts at certain stores, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Read More »

Asian countries ramped up their defense spending in 2013, while military budgets in the West continued to dwindle as a share of the global total.

The Asia-Pacific region accounted for 24% of the $1.538 trillion spent worldwide last year, according to an annual defense budgets review published by IHS Jane’s on Feb. 4. By the end of the decade, it predicted, Asia’s share will have risen to 28%, highlighting an eastward power shift as Western budgets stagnate and Asian budgets continue growing. Read More »

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